Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Hospital Sírio Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil.
Crit Care Med. 2022 Jun 1;50(6):955-963. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005488. Epub 2022 Jan 26.
OBJECTIVES: As the pandemic advances, the interest in the long-lasting consequences of COVID-19 increases. However, a few studies have explored patient-centered outcomes in critical care survivors. We aimed to investigate frailty and disability transitions in COVID-19 patients admitted to ICUs. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: University hospital in Sao Paulo. PATIENTS: Survivors of COVID-19 ICU admissions. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We assessed frailty using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS). We also evaluated 15 basic, instrumental, and mobility activities. Baseline frailty and disability were defined by clinical conditions 2-4 weeks before COVID-19, and post-COVID-19 was characterized 90 days (day 90) after hospital discharge. We used alluvial flow diagrams to visualize transitions in frailty status, Venn diagrams to describe the overlap between frailty and disabilities in activities of daily living, and linear mixed models to explore the occurrence of new disabilities following critical care in COVID-19. We included 428 participants with a mean age of 64 years, 57% males, and a median Simplified Acute Physiology Score-3 score of 59. Overall, 14% were frail at baseline. We found that 124/394 participants (31%) were frail at day 90, 70% of whom were previously non-frail. The number of disabilities also increased (mean difference, 2.46; 95% CI, 2.06-2.86), mainly in participants who were non-frail before COVID-19. Higher pre-COVID-19 CFS scores were independently associated with new-onset disabilities. At day 90, 135 patients (34%) were either frail or disabled. CONCLUSIONS: Frailty and disability were more frequent 90 days after hospital discharge compared with baseline in COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU. Our results show that most COVID-19 critical care survivors transition to poorer health status, highlighting the importance of long-term medical follow-up for this population.
目的:随着大流行的进展,人们对 COVID-19 的长期后果的兴趣日益增加。然而,只有少数研究探讨了重症监护幸存者的以患者为中心的结局。我们旨在调查入住 ICU 的 COVID-19 患者的虚弱和残疾转变。
设计:前瞻性队列研究。
地点:圣保罗的一家大学医院。
患者:COVID-19 ICU 入院幸存者。
干预措施:无。
测量和主要结果:我们使用临床虚弱量表(CFS)评估虚弱程度。我们还评估了 15 项基本、工具和移动活动。基线虚弱和残疾是根据 COVID-19 前 2-4 周的临床状况定义的,COVID-19 后则在出院后 90 天(第 90 天)进行描述。我们使用冲积流图可视化虚弱状态的转变,使用 Venn 图描述日常生活活动中虚弱和残疾的重叠,并使用线性混合模型探索 COVID-19 后重症监护后新残疾的发生。我们纳入了 428 名平均年龄为 64 岁、57%为男性、简化急性生理学评分-3 中位数为 59 的参与者。总体而言,14%的参与者在基线时虚弱。我们发现,394 名参与者中有 124 名(31%)在第 90 天虚弱,其中 70%的参与者之前并不虚弱。残疾人数也有所增加(平均差异,2.46;95%CI,2.06-2.86),主要是在 COVID-19 之前无虚弱的参与者中。较高的 COVID-19 前 CFS 评分与新发病残疾独立相关。第 90 天,135 名患者(34%)要么虚弱要么残疾。
结论:与 ICU 入院时相比,COVID-19 患者出院后 90 天虚弱和残疾更为常见。我们的研究结果表明,大多数 COVID-19 重症监护幸存者的健康状况恶化,这突出了对该人群进行长期医疗随访的重要性。
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